The reason you can't post in the Professional Fora is that you haven't applied for Professional Status.

The Professional Fora are protected and only members of the tailoring profession are allowed to post here. You will have to your membership upgraded to Professional Status to gain access.

Unless you have Professional Status you will not be able to start new threads or reply to old threads in the Professional Fora. This is not an error, it is the way the forum has been set up.

If you are a tailor or a tailor's apprentice please contact me (either a private message to me or via email) so you can be be granted access to the Professional Fora.

Members of related professions are also welcome: shirtmakers, tiemakers, dressmakers, tailoring supply sellers, cloth merchants and other textile industry and anyone else involved in the garment manufacturing business.

If you qualify for Professional Status please contact me telling me a little bit about who you are, and your professional background. It is preferred (though not absolutely necessary) that you have a professional website or blog to tell us who you are.

Lastly, information about gaining access to the Professional Fora is found in the Forum Guidelines. All new members are ask to read the forum guidelines because they contain vital information about how to use the forum.

Tailors who have had their status upgraded to Professional are also encouraged to start a thread in the Tailor's Directory. This is a professional listing directed at the clients that read the forum looking for a tailor in their local area. Please tell us a little about yourself, your styling philosophy, how to contact you, your website, and perhaps some pictures of your work.

You can also contact me to have your details added to the country/regional directory eg North America, UK, France, Central Europe etc. Remember that as a forum member, you will have your listing placed at the top of the directory, ranked in order of post count.